have they ever addressed this in later years? Like, what was their justification for Google becoming the AdMonster it did?
Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
by liveoneggs on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:42AM
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Yes but you can't hear them because they are on yachts
Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
by dmvdoug on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:44PM
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Sounds like a job for the orcas…
Lol, hope springs eternal :).
... but more seriously: Yeah, their reasoning (now) isn't exactly going to be unbiased and/or unblemished by their own experience. They probably have the most extreme survivorship bias ever. (Not their fault, they just do because of whatever factors got them into the position they're in.)
"[W]e expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers"
and
"[W]e believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."
Both from The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page (1998)